"frontrunner" meaning in English

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          "text": "“Republican frontrunner Donald Trump used a campaign stop in Michigan on Monday to make astonishingly sexist attacks against Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton,” the left-leaning ThinkProgress wrote.",
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          "ref": "2025 April 21, Sam Clancy, Andrew Weil, “Former St. Louis archbishop Burke among 'popeable' candidates after Francis' death”, in KSDK:",
          "text": "In 2020, Edward Pentin, the senior Vatican correspondent for the National Catholic Register, released a book on the topic, titled \"The Next Pope: The Leading Cardinal Candidates.\" In the book, Pentin listed 19 cardinals he considered to be papabile, or \"popeable\" frontrunners.",
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          "text": "But as the old papal election saying goes: “He who enters the conclave as pope, leaves it as a cardinal”, because few of those who are frontrunners at the start make it through the successive rounds of voting.",
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